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The Big Steal [1949] [VHS]

Posted by Notcot on Sep 15, 2010 in Noir

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Kiss Me Deadly [DVD] [1955]

Posted by Notcot on Sep 14, 2010 in Noir

Average Rating: 4.0 / 5 (12 Reviews)

A terrific film noir full of skewed camera angles and mysterious whose-shoes-are-those shots, Kiss Me Deadly is about as dark and exciting as noir gets. A young woman (Cloris Leachman) in bare feet and a trench coat throws herself into the traffic to flag down help and the car she stops belongs to detective Mike Hammer. Not even 15 minutes into the film and there’s already been a murder, a mysterious letter, an attempt to kill Hammer and, of course, a warning to stay out of it. Hammer, tired of lowlife divorce cases, smells something big and can’t let it go.

Mike Hammer is a detective so cool he can win a fight with nothing more than a box of popcorn as a weapon; he knows his opera singers as well as his amateur prize-fighters and he makes the ladies swoon–but he’s far from a conventional hero. In fact, he’s emphatically not a nice guy; Hammer happily whores out his secretary-girlfriend Velma to cinch up those divorce cases and has a penchant for slamming other people’s fingers in drawers. Even the bad guys know he’s a sleazebag (“What’s it worth to you to turn your considerable talents back to the gutter you crawled out of?”). Ralph Meeker plays Hammer’s ambivalence brilliantly, swinging easily between sexy and just plain mean. –Ali Davis

Kiss Me Deadly [DVD] [1955]

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Noir – Vol. 1 [2003] [DVD]

Posted by Notcot on Sep 13, 2010 in Noir

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Neo-Noir: Contemporary Film Noir from Chinatown to The Dark Knight

Posted by Notcot on Sep 13, 2010 in Noir

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The Film Noir Collection – Guest In The House [DVD] [1944]

Posted by Notcot on Sep 12, 2010 in Noir

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Lana Turner: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, They Won’t Forget, Ingenue , Love Finds Andy Hardy, Johnny Eager, Ziegfeld Girl, Somewhere I’ll Find You, Femme Fatale, Film Noir

Posted by Notcot on Sep 12, 2010 in Noir

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The Film Noir Collection – Hollow Triumph (The Scar) [DVD] [1948]

Posted by Notcot on Sep 11, 2010 in Noir

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Dead Reckoning [VHS] [1947]

Posted by Notcot on Sep 10, 2010 in Noir

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The Ultimate Film Noir Collection [DVD]

Posted by Notcot on Sep 9, 2010 in Noir

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Tostaky

Posted by Notcot on Sep 8, 2010 in Noir

Average Rating: 4.0 / 5 (1 Reviews)

Tostaky

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